Pieter Bruegel

c.1525 - 1569

Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Painter and The Connoisseur (c. 1565) pen and ink on brown paper
(thought to be a self-portrait)
Vienna, Graphische Sammlung Albertina
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Temptation of St. Anthony (1557) oil on canvas
Washington, National Gallery of Art
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Landscape with the Parable of the Sower (1557) oil on panel
San Diego, Timken Art Gallery
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder (?) – Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1558)
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Adoration of the Kings (1556-1562)
Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Netherlandish Proverbs (1559) Oil on oak panels
Berlin, Gemäldegalerie
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559) oil on wood
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Children's Games (1560)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Naval Battle in the Gulf of Naples (1560) oil on wood
Rome, Galleria Doria-Pamphili
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Fall of the Rebel Angels (1562)
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Triumph of Death (1562) oil on panel
Madrid, Museo del Prado
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Adoration of the Kings (1564)
London, The National Gallery
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Flight into Egypt (1563) oil on wood
London, Courtauld Institute Galleries
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Tower of Babel (1563) oil on board
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Procession to Calvary (1564) Oil on oak panel
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Procession to Calvary - detail (1564) Oil on oak panel
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Death of the Virgin (1564) oil on panel
Banbury, Upton House
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Dulle Griet (Mad Meg) (1565) oil on wood
Antwerp, Museum Mayer van den Bergh
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap (1565)
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Hunters in the Snow - January (1565)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Gloomy Day - February (1565) oil on wood
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Haymaking - July (1565) oil on wood
Lobkowicz Palace in Prague Castle
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Hay Harvest (or:  The Harvesters) - August (1565) oil on wood
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Return of the Herd - November (1565) oil on wood
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Wedding Feast (c. 1566) Oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Gallup, Guitrooy and Weisberg, p. 271

Pieter Bruegel the Elder – Wedding Dance in the Open Air (1566)
Detroit, Institute of Arts
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Census at Bethlehem (1566)
Brussels, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Slaughter of the Innocents (c. 1567)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Conversion of Saul (c. 1567)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Adoration of the Kings in the Snow (1567)
Winterthur, Oskar Reinhart Collection
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Land of Cockaigne/Land Of Milk And Honey (1567)
Munich, Alte Pinakothek

Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Peasant Dance (1568)
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Cripples (1568)
Paris, The Louvre Museum
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Pieter Bruegel – The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind (1568) tempera on canvas
Naples, Galleria Nazionale di Capodimonte
Plazy, History of Art in Pictures, p. 106

Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Magpie on the Gallows (1568)
Darmstadt, Hessisches Landesmuseum
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Peasant and the Nest Robber (1568) Oil on panel
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder – The Storm at Sea (1568) Oil on panel
(unfinished - probably his last painting)
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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Prepared by Miles H. Hodges